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Kesearcli; at La Jolla, near San Diego; and other laboratories for 

 special studies elsewhere. It is a coeducational institution and had a 

 total enrollment for 1914-15, not including that of the summer 

 school, of G,202. The members of the faculty and other officers of 

 administration and instruction number 890. The imiversitj' build- 

 ings at Berkeley are beautifully situated and have a broad outlook 

 oyer San Francisco Bay. Their position can readily be identified 



Another prominen 



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of buildings occupying a similar site just south of the university 



grounds is that of the CaUfornia School for the Deaf and the Blind. 



Just before reaching Oakland (Sixteenth Street station) the train 

 passes Shell Mound Park. The mound, which is about 250 feet long 

 and 27 feet high^ is on the shore of the bay close to the right-hand 

 side of the track. 



number of shells of clams, oysters, abalones, and other shellfish 

 gathered for food by the prehistoric inhabitants of the region and 

 eaten on this spot. The discarded shells, gradually accumulating, 

 built up the mound. Such relics of a prehistoric people are numerous 

 about the bay, for over 400 shell mounds haye been discovered wdthin 

 30 miles of San Francisco. The mound just described is one of the 

 largest, and from excavations in it a great number of crude stone, 

 shell, and bone implements and ornaments have been obtained. The 

 mounds evidently mark the sites of cam2)s or villages that "were 

 inhabited during long periods, for the accumulation of such refuse 

 could not have been very rapid. Archeologists who have studied the 

 mound say that it must have been the site of an Indian village over 

 a thousand years ago, and that it was probably inhabited almost 

 continuously to about the time when the Spaniards first entered 

 Cahfornia. 



The first stop in the city of Oakland is made at the Sixteenth Street 

 station, about 1 i miles from the busmess center of the city. Oakland 



is the seat of Alameda County and Ues on the eastern 

 Oakland. shore of San Francisco Bay directly opposite San 



Elevation 12 feet. Fraucisco. Its name is derived from the live oaks 

 oSri^rSi^; which originally covered the site. It is an important 



manufacturing center and has a fine harbor with 15 

 miles of water front. Visitors to Oakland should if possible take the 



electric cars to Piedmont, from which a fine view may 

 Francisco, the bay, and the Golden Gate. This view^ is e 

 at sunset. A walk or drive to Kedwood Peak takes t] 

 the former home of Joaauin Miller, author of ^^ Songs o 



visitor 



many other familiar poems, and affords equally fine views 



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